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Do You Want the $15,000 Curved TV?

The curved TV is coming to the U.S. but it will cost as much as a small car. Is it worth it? Scott Austin joins digits. Photo: Getty Images.

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... I ... read tea these are coming to the US can you afford one Wall Street Journal tech editor Scott Austin joins us now to talk about it ... and down yet again city of fifteen thousand dollars that got into my laundry is there to your this today the death of Helmsley has this new TV and costs fifteen thousand dollars late tells about the concept of race yet so this is the kind of the the newest version of televisions that with ... the poultry ... clear screens of his career ... and this is that when LG Electronics and Samsung and other TV makers hope to Canada's next generation of course ... they cost a lot of money right now because the screens themselves ... I it's very difficult to manufacture them ... I and so ... LG Electronics is actually selling them starting today ... at Best Buy ... map for fifteen thousand dollars you can start ordering them ... the next couple of weeks of pre orders ... there is it's it's about saying cost of the Carson ... in the big question is whether the steep these of course will be adopted ... in the future they make use ... of these new kind of screens ... with the industry calls OLED switches is Coca organic light emitting diodes it's ... a it's a type of screen that ... the visual clarity is better ... you can make the screens thinner than LCD screens that were all he's to ... calm ... right now again ... the maker of these ... makers of these displays are having trouble pulling down those costs so ... it's going to take ... probably a few years for before we it's you know when to put into the photos of each of these to me it looks like set of IMAX their homes many and on the water unlike ... you know for the TV geeks out there obviously resolutions of different sizes of a friendly team like ... the size of the two colors and ... can keep the CBI grows and grows the light of these bigger than that been the largest flat screen TV ... in this one in particular is fifty five inches and no but ... I'd I mean they are more expensive of course ... because of those displays which are much thinner ... aam is a light or TV overall ... you are ... you're going to get a better cut power use ... by energy use out of it ... ALM so you know they're a lot of advantages of the sides that the ... cost is that the right thing right ... on these TV Xeon Baca now ... do we need a curved screen ... I you know a lot of people to complain ... when you fish with plasma televisions were sitting ... on top of the side may be a party that can see the screen as well so maybe the curved screen will help ... I'd also help with glamour ... right ... you know the other thing that ... strikes me is that you know in the TV world Samsung has been sort of you know ... the leaders took over from Panasonic and I was going on Panasonic was leader Samsung and oh I don't owe a lot homes ascent from Phoebe's this is from LG right so is Samsung jumping on this bandwagon are or not ... yes and and try to brighten up because they both LG and Samsung showcase of these curved TV Z for solid consumer electronic show ... in Las Vegas earlier this year so Samsung ... has also started selling these only in Korea though you can only buy them and in South Korea ... this is the first time I with LG ... that these are key these are available here in the US ... I would expect Samsung to do the same thing but ... you know again it's kind of a gimmick right now somebody who has a lot of money was really interested in having the first current TV ... MS may buy it ... I aam to buy I it's going to take a several years ... if the industry even really and consumers really adopt ... not only curve televisions but these new locally the screens ... what's also interesting is that ... this curve and flexible screens are likely coming to smartphones to Samsung's of a wedding to be on the honor trend the sort of flexible screens we also heard about three D ... TV a couple years go on that that ... that NFL today debut through the next three D there may be the Betamax flats to have some blood to come back and tells about it when the prices ... can be afforded by people on earth ... that's the thing ... to do one or more bouts of curved screen TV is other coal